recondite

Example Sentences

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Success and failure in the movie business is the most recondite of qualities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024

Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

The five-foot deepening involved not some recondite engineering challenge; essentially it required moving muck.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson